Grievous Angel

Missed this for #StandingStoneSunday 😮 #StonehengeAnything

That didn’t feel like goodbye, I don’t think I’ve ever heard the Cabs so tight and sounding so perfect. The sound and visuals were 100% on point. More thoughts tomorrow but that was a lot to take in.

[CW: SA, child abuse] 🤔1. Nicki Minaj is not even a US citizen. 2. She attacks trans people, but defends her brother. This is her brother:

Remi Dekker, son of resistance fighter Freddie Oversteegen has this to say about our minis! 😍 I am blown away! Also pic of when we met up recently, he got a special painted one by John Morris. (KS on now www.kickstarter.com/projects/bad...)

Here’s a diorama of the Lamborghini Jota I did for #ItaliaGB. This was enormous fun.

Anyone going on BBC this month should order one of these beforehand and let them sweat www.poppyshop.org.uk/products/pri...

Froggatt Edge / Stoke Flat stone circle last week. My kinda local, most visited stone circle.

Arbor low stone circle, last week. A delightful place which is important to me.

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LiDAR Lens lidarlens.sarsen.org a free LiDAR tool there is for England and Wales. Light it from any angle, switch between hillshade, multi-direction & local relief. Click, it gives links straight to the records. Maps & aerial photos sit underneath for comparison. www.sarsen.org/2026/10/lida...

If you thought all that recent #NoahsArk buzz was just another silly season story at best or a scam at worst, Carl here has put together not only a good overview of the history of such claims and methodological criticism, but also sheds light on the personnel involved. Which may make things worse.

I got this 40 years ago in a tiny weird record shop in west london that is long gone. It’s a pretty good record.

Picketty on the French riots. Very clear and specific. thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/2026/10/20/h...

Another one here that appears not to have noticed fascist mobs across the country burning people out of their homes, setting fire to hotels, fighting with the police and dragging people out of their cars to beat them. Is there a particular reason that bothers him less than the riots in France?

I just listened to the whole of Prince’s Sign of the Times album and holy mother of god, it has a lot of shit on it. Couple of good tracks and a lot of dross. My wife came in and begged me to turn it down. Jesus.

Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki were 50 and 44, respectively, when they founded Studio Ghibli

Copped this and reading it now. Well written, comprehensive and fascinating. Excellent.

“Woof” etc. Hilarious.

We just had a power cut for THIRTY WHOLE MINUTES. Back on now and my network rebooted from scratch in 5 minutes. Ubiquiti rocks. Heat pump back on too obvs.

Today, in Russian propaganda:

Goals

Can’t wait to read this ! Neil is a proper expert and very engaging.

One of the devils arrows was taken from the field where the current three are and was turned into a war memorial.

More than 2 million Indigenous people likely lived in Australia in 1788, over seven times the figure used for a century, and numbers fell by over 90 percent by 1861. #Archaeology #IndigenousAustralia #PopulationGenetics www.anthropology.net/p/australia-...

This will be excellent, if you are near New Cross do go along

As usual, Mekka is accurate. To use the oft-repeated phrase, he has receipts.

I suspect Dr Williams has a take similar to that of @cstross.bsky.social, who has been talking about this aspect of the new tech-orthodoxy for some years

This is well worth your time. The panel in the interview which shows the distribution of female versus male representation of n prehistory is mind blowing. Excellent.

This is well worth reading on the statistical reasoning beyond the A.I. doom hype. My view is this messaging is an attempt to get open weight models regulated into competitive disadvantage just as they become a threat to frontier models’ revenue and floatation.

It’s the constantly having a lit fag in the left hand rolling out the baseline that really impresses. That and the circle dancing.

“A refusal of despair, a lensing of hope”. Bravo, @hookland.bsky.social

Glorious autumn devotional altar at Sheffield Goddess Temple. It looks fresh and beautiful every time I go in. Fabulous work.

Getting close to “done” with the Lambo Jota in all its 70s space age glory. Nothing broke when I put the body on! Lots of errors but I like it 😆. Tamiya polishing paste arriving today, a new experiment! #italiagb #histscalemodels

Putin pal and oligarch Umar Kremlev, who paid $100,000 towards Don Jr’s wedding, is a former member of the ultranationalist Russian biker gang the Night Wolves and is linked to the abduction of Ukrainian children.

Still sad about Shaun’s passing. I did the soundtrack / DI mix to Minds Locked Together, a short film he made while doing photography in club nights. We used to go clubbing and he’d come round my house with big art prints. One time he brought round dry ice “for the kids” but it had evaporated!! ❤️

Decent progress on the 1975 Lamborghini Jota by Hasegawa. This has been a fabulously entertaining model to build, really enjoyed it. #histscalemodels #italiaGB

New tune from me: Clouds 130 sino-grime. Spotify, tidal, all streaming services, all stores. Bandcamp obvs. Melodic, wistful, big bass grime / uk bass tune. open.spotify.com/track/2sPvJB...

Definitely worth reading from many perspectives

My copy arrived this morning. PSYCHICK YOUTH.

Warning for National Trust members who have previously voted to keep the reactionaries of Restore Trust out - they seem to be trying a new tactic this year of not being quite as obvious in their candidates' potted summaries

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

Datinge app for megalith enthuasistes Henge

TODAY is the FIRST of SEPTEMBER!

The Dule tree: a site of feudal “justice” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dule_tree Tip of the hat to @cstross.bsky.social for the link.

Most of my modelling this year has been of robots. Here’s a big purple hovercraft robot with a maintenance bot and a guy in a mech suit. The purple is amazing IRL. Model is a Hasegawa / Maschinen Kriege set, re-versioned as civilian. #scalemodel Not quite #histscalemodels